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Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - CESifo - 2013

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...

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Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment

Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...

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Measuring Parity in Sports Leagues with Draws: Further Comments

Owen, P Dorian - National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) - 2010

This paper re-examines the calculation of the relative standard deviation (RSD) measure of competitive balance in leagues in which draws are possible outcomes. Some key conclusions emerging from the exchange between Cain and Haddock (2006) and Fort (2007) are reversed. There is no difference,...

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Playoff Uncertainty, Match Uncertainty and Attendance at Australian National Rugby League Matches

King, Nicholas; Owen, P Dorian; Audas, Rick - National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) - 2010

modelling match attendance compared to other variants of playoff uncertainty in the existing literature. A model of match … attendance that incorporates match uncertainty, playoff uncertainty, past home-team performance and other relevant control … suggest that playoff uncertainty and home-team success are more important determinants of match attendance than match …

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Homevoters vs. Leasevoters: A Spatial Analysis of Airport Effects

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Maennig, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2013

We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...

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Competitive Balance Measures in Sports Leagues: The Effects of Variation in Season Length

Owen, P Dorian; King, Nicholas - National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) - 2013

Appropriate measurement of competitive balance is a cornerstone of the economic analysis of professional sports leagues. We examine the distributional properties of the ratio of standard deviations (RSD) of points percentages, the most widely used measure of competitive balance in the sports...

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Induced Civic Pride and Integration

Süssmuth, Bernd; Heyne, Malte; Maennig, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2009

This paper investigates whether a nation’s contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a...

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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect?

Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - CESifo - 2008

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The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball

Kahn, Lawrence M. - National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) - 2009

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...

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